Head coach of Krasnodar “Lokomotiv-Kuban” Alexandre Sekulic named the main reasons for the defeat of Zenit St. Petersburg in the second match of the series for third place in the VTB United League.
The meeting in St. Petersburg ended with a score of 99:96 (22:28, 26:20, 26:24, 25:24) in favor of the hosts. The score in the best-of-three series became 2-0 in favor of Zenit. The third match of the series will take place on May 30 in Krasnodar.
— I would like to congratulate Zenit on their victory. Today they were more focused. We, in turn, have allowed many losses. Of course we could have scored more points, but we couldn’t. Plus, we made some stupid losses. Nevertheless, we must pay tribute to Zenit. Playing against such a team, you can’t have that many defeats.
—Were there factors of good luck and bad luck that evening?
“I don’t think they played a key role.” Zenit did not lose any balls and performed better in the second half of the match.
— What needed to change to compensate for the absence of Ndour and White?
“We cannot say that they can in principle be compensated.” These are the two main players in our front line. Nevertheless, our team played together. But we don’t have enough experience to replace these two players.
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